{"id":1392,"date":"2018-02-15T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzheimer.noemi.lu\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2018-02-15T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:36:03","slug":"epad-opens-first-site-in-england-in-buckinghamshire-and-oxfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/epad-opens-first-site-in-england-in-buckinghamshire-and-oxfordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"EPAD opens first site in England in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #2d2d2d\">We are very pleased to announce that the EPAD LCS study is now recruiting volunteers in England. People in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire over the age of 50 are being invited by the NHS to join the EPAD project. The University of Oxford is the first site to open in England and Wales and second in the UK. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">The first recruit in the two counties is Mary-Jane Hicks (pictured), 57, a personal assistant from Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Her father, Phillip Hicks, was diagnosed with dementia in 2012 aged 87 and died from the condition in September 2017 aged 92. She lived with and cared for him during most of this time at his home in Abingdon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">Ms Hicks found out about EPAD through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Dementia Research<\/a>, a website where the public \u2013 with and without dementia \u2013 can register to be told of dementia studies they can take part in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">She said: \u201cI\u2019m worried that I might get dementia one day and I saw first-hand how awful it is, so I thought \u2018if there\u2019s anything to do to keep it at bay, like if the researchers identify something that might progress into it, then I\u2019d be keen to be part of clinical trials\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">\u201cI would encourage people to take part in research. If we expect science to mend us, then for that to happen, we have to participate. That\u2019s always been my view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">\u201cI hope we can identify how to halt dementia before it kicks in. If people are going to live to be old, I hope they keep the quality of life that goes with that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">\u201cI do all I can to live a healthy life, and if there\u2019s something I can do to stop me getting dementia, I want to keep it at bay for as long as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #333333\">\u201cYou need participants in order to do research, so that\u2019s why I think taking part is really worthwhile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news release announcing\u00a0the first participant enrolled in the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is available <a id=\"exitbox99007\" class=\" thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nihr.ac.uk\/news\/pioneering-dementia-study-opens-first-site-in-england-in-buckinghamshire-and-oxfordshire\/7928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce that the EPAD LCS study is now recruiting volunteers in England. People in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire over the age of 50 are being invited by the NHS to join the EPAD project. 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